Authors

Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were both adapted for television.

In 1951, Sharpe moved to South Africa, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher, before being deported for sedition in 1961. His time in South Africa inspired his now-classic novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure, in which he mocked the apartheid regime.

Sharpe died in 2013 at the age of eighty-five.

Praise

“Tom Sharpe is very funny—but exceptionally vulgar, crude and offensive. Many view him as Britain’s funniest living novelist. Most people feel that his first two novels, set in a fictionalized South Africa, are his best: Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure.” —Michael Dirda

“Sharpe is one of England’s funniest writers. He’s in the tradition of the 19th-century satirist Thomas Love Peacock, who wrote novels of ideas laced with physical, slapstick farce.” —Martin Levin, on Porterhouse Blue